Re: Large size console font possible?

[Michael Huff <mphuff%gmail.com@localhost>]

wsfontload! Yes, I've played with that, I think. It only works on the 
terminal you're on, but it's better than nothing.

I'm going to try building a kernel for my laptop following your advice 
and see if that helps.

Much obliged!

On 11/8/2020 11:06 AM, Benny Siegert wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2020, Michael Huff wrote:
>
> > On a laptop with an intel card. During boot the font resizes into 
> > something really tiny and barely readable -which gives me intense 
> > eyestrain really quickly, and makes console troubleshooting a problem.
>
> The console font is determined by the fonts which are compiled into 
> the kernel. By default, there is a font called BOLD8x16 and a 
> pixel-doubled version.
>
> What I do is to create a new kernel config with "option 
> FONT_SPLEEN16x32", build a kernel and run that.
>
> There is also a way to select a different font (including a different 
> size) at runtime (using wsfontload, I believe) but I have not played 
> with that.